Making Marriage Work A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

Name: Making Marriage Work A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States
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ISBN: 9780807872215

ISBN-10: 0807872210

ISBN-13: 9780807872215

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kristin Celello

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By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. InMaking Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work." Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Kristin Celello is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Making Marriage Work



The Chaos of Modern Marriage: Experts, Divorce, and the Origins of Marital Work, 1900-1940



Can War Marriages Be Made to Work? Keeping Women on the Marital Job in War and Peace



They Learned to Love Again: Marriage Saving in the 1950s



Radical Feminists, Liberated Housewives, and Total Women: Searching for the Future of Marriage, 1963-1980



Super Marital Sex and the Second Shift: New Work for Wives in the 1980s and 1990s


Epilogue: Still Working


Notes


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